This paper presents a system that retrieves descriptive phrases of proper nouns from free text. Sentences holding the specified noun are ranked using a technique based on pattern ...
Abstract. In this paper the focus is on object-oriented analysis of information systems. We assume that the communication within an application domain can be described by a logbook...
The goal of my dissertation research is to investigate the combination of new evidence sources for improving information retrieval on speech collections. The utility of these evid...
Scientific digital libraries serve complex and evolving research communities. Justifications for the development of scientific digital libraries include the desire to preserve sci...
J. Steven Hughes, Daniel J. Crichton, Chris Mattma...
Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smo...